After Action Report: Operation Persian Freedom Phase 3 Mission 17: Munitions Factory at Aghar Jan 11.14.04 Page 11

By SimHQ on June 22, 2006 in _air6, hide

“Two, bombs away!” called Dill as he let loose his pair of JSOWs. Blind and Tickle followed up in the same way. Good, that was the second wave. Two more to go and we can go home.

I turned hard to the right to form up with the rest of my flight, amazed at how little resistance we had met. I hadn’t even switched off EMCON mode to fight off any SAMs:

The Prowler was doing a good job jamming the radars and even firing off their own HARMs at SAMs as needed, but my big question was where were those Charlie Hornets? They were supposed to be on SEAD with us, but I never saw or heard from them. They must not have made their push time and were vectored back to the boat, the Prowler begrudgingly taking on their workload. This made the Prowlers less efficient and more susceptible to enemy threats, and being that they were the only ones covering our attack right now…

No matter. As I heard Blind drop her primary ordnance load, I knew this mission was pretty much done, that is, if the JSOWs didn’t fail and were packing enough of a punch to take down the buildings: